Hello! Cloud Native Mauritius, the local CNCF Chapter, had its first meetup on the 31st August 2024. With 20 of 25 RSVPs showing up, Ish (organiser) and I (also organiser) could not have hoped for a more successful first event. Planning Planning for this meetup started at the end of…
It's about time that I have a solid backup solution for my Kubernetes cluster, as well as the other services I run around here. It will also reduce my reliance on this exact cluster because currently all data is stored in Longhorn and isn't the most practical to get out.…
Yay, DevCon! The go-to event for geeks, nerds and anyone under the IT enthusiast spectrum in Mauritius. A quick pre-face. I attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in March earlier this year and, while that was definitely an experience in of itself, DevCon holds a special place in my heart because of how…
The tale of how everything which could've gone wrong went wrong for my Kubernetes workshop, and then got even worse through my own mistakes.…
We have asserted that Kubernetes works around containers. The stateless nature of these containers allows us to scale and load balance with ease. But what happens when you want to keep some state on there? I mean, after all, how would you deploy a database server like Postgres or MySQL…